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Give bees a chance

About 2 years ago I saw a T -Shirt with a huge picture of a bee on the front and the words "give bees a chance" written all around it. . I thought it looked really 'cool' but the T-shirts were not available...

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The History of Bee Keeping

Beehives and beekeeping are of great antiquity, and the products of the bee were of an importance in earlier economies that we would hardly realize.  Prehistoric man was well acquainted with wild bees and...

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Honey Bees in a Comb69

How You Can Help The Honey Bees

Imagine Thanksgiving dinner without cranberry sauce and pumpkin pies. Summers without strawberry shortcake and watermelon. Burgers without pickles, hot dogs without relish. Chips with no guacamole. Chinese...

5 comments    garden honey bees
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Stingless Bees

There are several hundred species of stingless social bees world wide -- quite different from the better known commercial honey bees. Most build resinous nests inside hollow trees. Their tangy honey is a gourmet delight.

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Completely heal wounds, infections, rashes, even ulcers: Raw Honey

Raw honey is absolutely amazing at healing the most severe skin ailment, and even ulcer, better than modern medicine. It's power has been known for thousands of years, and scientific information on raw honey can be found easily. Sounds strange, but try it out!

1 comment    health food nutrition
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Miss Daisy's Quilting Bee

In many parts of the country, the old-fashioned quilting bee is a thing of the past. it is an activity many young people have only heard of, even in today's rurual communities. It has gone to keep company...

3 comments    dog honey bees
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What's killing the honey bees?

There are about 250,000 species of flowering plants on earth that require pollination. Wind, gravity, water, birds, bats and insects are the forces that accomplish pollination. This process accidentally...

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The Roman and the Bee: Land of Wax and Honey

Thyme honey was a favorite with Ancient Romans who disregarded heather and granulated honey. Honey served many different purposes, and its bi-product, wax, also had many ingenious uses.Honey was used like we...

0 comments    honey roman bees
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How to get started beekeeping

Here you will learn everything you need to know about starting beekeeping. Learning how to set it up right and gain knowledge from experts who have been doing it for years

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How To Move A Colony of Bees

It is a difficult task to move a bee colony but it can be done It needs to be done in the Spring when the population of the colony will be smaller and the bees have time to prepare for winter. Here are two possible ways to move a honeybee colony that has established its self in a wall.

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